I am getting notifications that updates are available for a bunch of apps, but the version number is the same. Update fails. Package size differs. Screenshot is an example with VLC. I cleared cache, even all data+reinstall, tried other clients (droidify) but the behaviour is the same.

  • Lyubo@lemmy.ml
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    26 days ago

    I noticed that many people use unofficial F-Droid clients and wanted to say that unofficial F-Droid clients harm the official F-Droid mirrors because they don’t handle them correctly. So please 🙏, if you don’t heavily relay on some feature in unofficial client, try the official: F-Droid Basic kr Classic. F-Droid Basic is the most secure too.

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      26 days ago

      What is the source of this info? If it was doing serious damage to them they wouldn’t publish these clients on their platform.

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    27 days ago

    @BeatTakeshi they appear to be different architecture versions of 3.7.0

    I was confused too since Droid-ify didn’t seem to list the architecture of the versions, and while it did download the latest version that’s 49MB, it didn’t install because it’s x86_64 apk, which won’t install on arm64(-v8a).

    A screenshot of the F-Droid website. Version 3.7.0 (13070008) suggested Added on Feb 24, 2026 x86_64 This version requires Android 4.2 or newer. It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball. Permissions Download APK 49 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log Version 3.7.0 (13070007) - Added on Feb 24, 2026 x86 This version requires Android 4.2 or newer. It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball. Permissions Download APK 45 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log Version 3.7.0 (13070006) - Added on Feb 24, 2026 arm64-v8a This version requires Android 4.2 or newer. It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball. Permissions Download APK 47 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log Version 3.7.0 (13070005) - Added on Feb 24, 2026 armeabi-v7a This version requires Android 4.2 or newer. It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball. Permissions Download APK 45 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

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    26 days ago

    I noticed this on droidify a few days ago had to disable the update on that version of libretorrent to stop it continuously trying to update.